IHOP and Snail Anatomy: Please read my content

Yesterday I shared an excerpt of a web series.  It felt good.  The web series makes vague mention of a snail, so I included an image of a snail that details its anatomy in…detail.  And that felt good, too.  So much content amasses when you write.  And when you write poetry, so much poetry amasses.

The YOLO Twins: An unreleased web series

I wrote three episodes of a web series, and now I will forever have three episodes of a web series living in my cloud. The premise is confusing. I came up with it in the middle of the night and it solves the problem of: “I don’t have any friends to make a web series

A general announcement involving Stormtroopers

I would like to casually announce that I will be driving across the United States when I move from New Jersey to Los Angeles in a couple weeks. With my brand new husband! And our overweight cat! (That angle is particularly alarming, but please know that I have recently developed an eating plan for her

I like this*

I like when you set out to write a sestina and then you get to that second stanza and the poem is like, “Nah, I ain’t a sestina.  I ain’t even a sestina.  I know you thought I was a sestina, but you dead up wrong.”  And then you get to know the poem and by

[VIDEO] Reading Poetry to the Cat: Episode 3

OULIPOST POEM 30: Goodbye

Well, it’s here.  The last day of Oulipost.  The last day of April.  It feels fitting that it’s RAINING where I am.  (Caps to emphasize just how much it’s raining.)  Thank you so sincerely to everyone at the Found Poetry Review and all of my fellow Ouliposters for everything. I guess I couldn’t resist steering

POEM: Introverts in cohousing, 2003

For Sharon who participated in the online thread, “Introverts in cohousing,” in the year 2003 I am an extreme introvert, too. I, too, need at least 9 hours alone a day, too. I, too, sometimes invite people to stay to watch a movie, but not always—ho, ho, you better believe not always. — See the

Poetry excerpt: Tanked

Poetry excerpt! An ongoing feature of this website in which you can find an excerpt from something written that day, along with a nice picture to look at that may or may not have anything to do with the excerpt. from Tanked We’ve been watching the television show about fish tanks. “Brothers-in-law and New Yorkers Wayde

Reading poetry to the cat, EPISODE 2! [video]

In which Tressa and I learn about love.

“Saved by the Bell” takes Manhattan!

See me wander the New York City streets naive and a little naked as Kelly Kapowski, along with the rest of the cast of “Bayside! The Musical.” Kelly Kapowski was not too severely harmed in the filming of this video, but she was kicked in the shin by a disapproving older woman, and told “Too